USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women’s Rights Convention. The park commemorates women’s struggle for equal rights, and the First Women’s Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 and 20, 1848.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women’s suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Seneca Falls Convention is regarded by many as the birthplace of American feminism. Heralded as the first women’s rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1848 Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention marked the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -On July 9, 1848 five women met in Waterloo, New York at the home of Jane and Richard Hunt. That day Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, and Mary Ann M’Clintock joined Jane Hunt in planning the First Women’s Rights Convention.